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What's growing on, Beehaw? (beehaw.org)

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Yesterday I discovered a pot that had gotten moved to an unexpected location, full of what I thought was a "handful"of baby lavenders. After splitting them all into their own pots, I now have 45 baby lavenders. Whoops.

Our self-seeded salad beds are bumping along after some rains and cool days, and I think I'll get a few more rounds of harvests in before they start bolting. I'll have to redo my peppers though. This morning was spent cutting back some of the stuff in our area with living pathways to feed to the veggies, chop 'n drop style.

This afternoon I'm going to hide in the shade (supposed to get up to 90° F) and split out some mob pots with New Jersey Tea and passionfruit (P. incarnata) seedlings. We're a ways north of the passionfruit's native range, so these are more for experimentation than for sales.

What's growing on with you all?

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[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We were talking (there will be more to come on "we" elsewhere) today about planning locations for raised beds in the yard, but as this is Texas, the window for a summer harvest is closed, so there isn't much of a rush.

Ideally, we could get in a fall planting and see what winter crops fare decently. I've been out of the gardening scene for over a decade, and I don't even know what zone we're in locally. There's going to be a lot of remedial learning before I'm anywhere near what I once knew.

My main goal is always New Mexican strains of C. annum, followed by crucifers and Allia. And of course some herbs. I'll happily put the effort into whatever else others would like, but here we get back to colocation and amendments, which I'm rusty as hell on.

Still, it's fun to be thinking about such things again.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

Your county Ag school probably offers some soil tests at a reasonable rate, and there's generally an option to have an agronomist make recommendations for any amendments based on what you're looking to grow.